Following his confrontation with Chris Brown earlier this week, Frank Ocean hit his tumblr for a moment of clarity. Pressing charges? Fuhgeddaboudit! AS A CHILD I THOUGHT IF SOMEONE JUMPED ME IT WOULD RESULT IN ME MURDERING OR MUTILATING A MAN. BUT AS A MAN I AM NOT A KILLER. I’M AN ARTIST AND A MODERN PERSON. I’LL CHOOSE SANITY. NO CRIMINAL CHARGES. NO CIVIL LAWSUIT. FORGIVENESS, ALBEIT DIFFICULT, IS WISDOM. PEACE, ALBEIT TRITE, IS WHAT I WANT IN MY SHORT LIFE. […]

T.I. brought his family hustle over to the Cable News Network’s Sanjay Gupta MD. With the aid of Urban Farming’s Taja Sevelle, T.I. and the kids plant a winter garden. That’ll get ’em to eat them veggies. rap-up

There’s some hoes in this house. And Da Brat, Shawnna and Justina are all under one roof with their take of Trinidad James’ hit. Enjoy! fsd

King L cruises the Chi and counts his dough in his new black-and-white visual. The audio can be found as the closing track off Drilluminati, which is available here.

It was a chilly night in Brooklyn on Thursday, but for Pusha T and French Montana, it didn’t matter. They shot the video for their track off Wrath Of Caine in front of Vinnie’s Styles and MTV gives us our first look.

Mack Maine and his choir exalt their gospels over A&AP Rocky’s instrumental produced by V Don. This will appear on Mack’s upcoming mixtape Freestyle 102.

New flows. New music. Says Mr. Graham: My good friends,It has truly been too long. I assume you’re all keeping well and making the most of this year that has been given to us. Today is the day to begin sharing my newest work with you. This is the first single off of my upcoming album. I feel sometimes that people don’t have enough information about my beginnings and therefore they make up a life story for me that isn’t […]

In the Big Easy for Super Bowl, Tune spoke with NOLA on his TRUKFIT women’s clothing line, Turk’s release and more. Off camera, he explained his DONDA-created cover art of I Am Not A Human Being 2. “[Kanye] said, you know, man, let me do your cover. I saw the cover and I approved it. He had an explanation behind it – he said, he chose the moth butterfly thing because it has so many different stages of life, and it goes through so […]

With today being the first day of Black History Month, Mister Cee kicked off his annual “Black Fist Friday” mix today on Hot 97 with this week’s guest, DJ Chuck Chillout. Download here. ifwt

Common’s still in love. On his latest track, he follows up his classic, “I Used To Love H.E.R.” for the latest leak off DJ/producer J. Period’s Rage Is Back. Mixtape drops February 12. billboard